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LCR Springerville to Wenima, AZ
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| Hiking | 9.00 Miles |
200 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.00 Miles | | | |
| 200 ft AEG | | | | |
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| no partners | | One of these days I am going to post this up as a regular hike. Yesterday's hike was in two segments, one in the morning, one in the late afternoon. First, we set up a shuttle with one car at the roadside restrooms just outside Springerville, and the other one down at the AZGFD Wenima Wildlife Area. Starting at the rest area we hiked down the Little Colorado to Wenima, mostly following the old hydroelectric plant's flume. This old flume is a trail, although not an official one, which locals know about.
Reaching the old hydroelectric power plant, in operation between 1927 and sometime in the 1950's, we then also reached the upper end of AZGFD's trail called "Powerhouse Trail." We hiked this back to the Hooper Ranch Road and the Wenima Wildlife Area parking. It's about 3 miles one way.
The map coordinates I have entered show the hike starting at the roadside rest area. Park there, and head down to the dam. Slip under the fence, cross the river, and follow it downstream. Locating the old flume on your right you can hike along that. There is one place you have to go down to the creek and back up again. The place you go down is where the iron steering wheel is (see photoset). You then follow the creek until you get to a place where you'd have to get wet, then you'll see the trail going back up. When you get to a fence across the flume, climb over it and continue. Eventually you'll see a dirt road. Try to follow this down to the creek, and find the old hydroelectric plant and the end of the Powerhouse Trail.
From there we headed for the cliffs full of petroglyphs.
In the evening we went back there, taking a picnic. There's a nice picnic area. After eating, we hiked down to Slade Cabin, following the Beavertail Trail. On this hike we saw the local herd of about 35 deer, two beavers and a porcupine. This was about 3 miles round trip.
This is such a fantastic area, yet people coming from Phoenix to hike in the White Mountains just have to have their pine tree fix, so they miss out on this great opportunity to see a lot of wildlife. There are no pine trees here at all, too bad, so sad. No people, either--on Memorial Day weekend!! |
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